Walker Library: Media Resources: Music & Audiobooks

Streaming Music--Library Subscriptions

Use of these services from off-campus requires you to sign in with your Pipeline information.

Music Online (from Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Cross-searches several music databases for text, video, and audio.
Searches African American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library and The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online. Includes streaming audio.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
The world´s largest online classical music library. The contents can be searched by composer, work, genre and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 11 combined search criteria. In addition to allowing subscribers to listen to recordings, NML provides liner notes for most recordings. Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined Naxos Music Library playlists. Instructors: Contact Grover Baker for account details necessary to create playlists.
Creating Playlists
Mobile Access
Instructors: Contact Grover Baker for account details necessary to create playlists.
Creating Playlists
Mobile Access
Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio with 65,000 tracks of jazz from more than 6,000 albums. 15 simultaneous users.
User Instructions
FAQ
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This link opens in a new window
Short streaming examples of musical forms covered in the text of the encyclopedia.

Streaming Audio--free internet sources

Sound Recordings at the Library of Congress
Approximately 25 collections of recorded sound, including some spoken word.
Cylinder preservation and digitization project
8,000+ cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections at the Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
Online access to approximately 1400 cylinder recordings, with more to be added.
South Africa Music Archive Project (SAMAP)
13,000+ audio files from a mix of private and institutional collections.
Internet Archive Audio
More than two hundred thousand free digital recordings including major performer concerts, radio shows, original music uploaded by users, and more. Many are available for free download.
Free Music Archive
A library of high-quality, legal audio downloads of contemporary music in many genres. Provided by WFMU-FM.
Open Music Archive
"Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive distributes these recordings freely, forms a site of exchange, and is a vehicle for future collaborations and distributed projects."

Audiobooks

Fiction and NonFiction Audiobooks (OverDrive)

Shakespeare Audio Plays (Complete Arkangel Shakespeare) This link opens in a new window

The Listening/Viewing Center

The Listening/Viewing Center offers access to a vast collection of LPs, CDs, DVDs, streaming audio tracks, and streaming videos, as well as two listening/viewing stations, each equipped with a turntable, headphones, a computer accessible with your MTMail login information, and an optical disc drive. An LVC assistant is always available during the area’s open hours to answer any questions regarding the library’s collection of musical scores or the use of the LVC and its many resources. The LVC is located in room 201B.

Contact the LVC: (615) 898-5855

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Media Resources: Music & Audiobooks

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Streaming Music--Library Subscriptions

Streaming Audio--free internet sources

Audiobooks

The Listening/Viewing Center